Teen

A little slip off wagon...I bought a beautiful panel I could not pass up...have no idea on plans for it but whatever......lol...then I grabbed the bumper and swung myself back on. All good.... Also, today, I pulled out a project I kitted up a year ago. It took me a year to collect all the fabrics for it...some from stash...some colors I didn't have so I'd buy on sale. The project is currently in 2 craft containers and 2 pouches so it was quite the stack of fabric. When I pulled it out, it left a big dent in my kitted projects shelves. Getr'done!!

grann of 6

Well, I tumbled off the wagon, skinned my knees again, and bruised my credit card. My cyber friend on the other side of the country "coerced' me into buying a couple FQ collections since they were on clearance. But I have already done pretty good damage to one collection of 30 FQs, used 24 of them in a lap quilt, and what's left of the pieces are becoming the binding. I had a piece of fabric, nearly 5 yards in the stash for a couple years, that is perfect for the backing, none of that left. So all in all that was a good purchase. The other FQ collection is already in the planning stage for another quilt.

happylab

I signed up for a mystery lock-in. I had 6 fabrics from my stash, yea! But needed 8.5 yards’ (yes yards) of background fabric for king size top. So I needed to buy 9 yards of fabric. I ended up choosing 2 fabrics for the background. 2.5 yards (which I had), and 6.5 yards, (I bought). I heard it will add an interesting twist to the top. The mystery will be a 12 hour sewn in. I’m looking forward to this. I’ve wanted to do this for years, but life kept getting in the way. This year I decided just to do it.
I also found the Paducah on line store. Oh my, I feel off the wagon again. I found panels for 2 projects I want to do, and two backing fabrics (a dinosaur and solar system pieces sized for twin beds. I’m going to find backing fabric and make a quick throw for my 2 GN. I bought some backing fabric, but will use it for background fabric. I can see this could be my down fall for on line fabrics. Now I have 3 on line stores for temptation. Oh well, have a happy daylights saving everyone. In less than 4 hours.

oksewglad

As usual love hearing how we falter, just a bit and then pick ourselves up!
My current project doesn't involve new fabric or even yardage! I'm using up LO triangles...lots of triangles. The centerpiece of the project is a 20" square made up of 1" finished HST's or 800 triangles! Next round uses larger pieces...

retiredteacher09

Here’s a hand-up for the people that took a quick step off. Have fun with the new fabric.

oksewglad: When I read 1” finished HSTs, my first thought was ironing all those HSTs and getting them to match up.

I am hoping to stop at SRHarris tomorrow but the plan is to just look. Lol!

WMUTeach

Still working on my purple stash buster. It has unexpectedly turned into a labor of love. One of my friends had a double lung transplant 6 years ago and has now her body is rejecting them. She is back to Cleveland Clinic while she waits for new lungs. In the mean time I took the quilt to our Bible study group and the gals signed it and added an encouraging scripture verse to the the white squares.

I started quilting the purple scrap buster this afternoon and should have it finished and bound by Wednesday or Thursday. I will take a photo of it finished.

jmoore

Teen, I will be anxious to see photos of your kitted project. I’m sure it will feel good to have it removed from your projects shelf.

I just finished an Arkansas Crossroads scrappy quilt and was able to use up a pile of leaders/enders That have been slowly accumulating. Once I figure out the posting photo thing... I’ll have quite a few to share. : )

oksewglad

HaHa..worst part is trimming them to 1 1/2" and then pressing the seams open. Sometimes there are missed kisses in the match ups; but this is for fun and not for show. The next blocks will be using 1 1/4" and it's amazing how much faster they go together in a block, but I will have more blocks.

WMUTeach

I have made a number of the Arkansa Crossroads quilts and like the pattern. On another QB thread, I posted a photo of one I made a number of years ago and someone wanted the pattern. Goodness, I don't know if I ever had a pattern. So here comes my question. Did you use an online pattern and if so can you post the link so I can pass it on to the folks in the other group. I would like to pass on a version that is "tried and true" so to speak. Thanks.

Cattitude

As someone posted earlier, using up stash often equals needing to bring more in to complete projects. Then the trip to the quilt shop.....will I stick to the list or succumb to temptation?

Today I stuck to the list, Yeah! A couple years ago my hubby bought me a jelly roll for Christmas. I started to make the MSQC North Star which calls for one jelly roll. I had very little waste but still fell well short of what was required for 36 blocks. Lens Mill (SW Ont. for those not familiar) does not clear out older lines and I was able to pick up .25m of 5 different fabrics so that I will be able to finish off. What a lucky break! Also needed .5m of a white blender, a small piece of aqua and blue and burgundy solids for some background. That’s it, that’s all, temptation avoided!

Feel good on one hand but on the other hand I keep thinking don’t pat yourself on the back too much.....it’s only been two months.